Biography

Martin Tillman, born in Zurich 1964 ,is known internationally in the Film and Music industry for his incredible experimental acoustic and electric cello. He has created a revolutionary sound of his own by extending the traditional boundaries of the classical cello. Martin Tillman discovered composing film music in a unique way, he had been brought in as the first electric cellist in Hollywood by Hans Zimmer on the movie "The Fan" (Robert De Niro). Since then Martin was the Cello soloist and additional score writer on over 100 movies and TV shows. Some of the Credits include: "Spiderman", "Pirates Of The Caribbean 1-5", "The Martian","Superman","Transformers","IRON MAN", "X-Men", "Batman Dark Knight" Trilogy, Tillman performed twice at "Oscars".2006 and 2012. (with Sting and Hans Zimmer), "Transformers", "Angel and Demons", "Da Vinci Code", "The Passion Of Christ", "The Ring", "Shrek", "Ali", "Hannibal", "The Pledge"(Jack Nicholson), "Mission Impossible II" (Tom Cruise) and many more. Martin Tillman's original film scores include: His EMMY-Nominated film:"Cries from Syria", "Schellen Ursli" (Little Mountain Boy), "In The Name Of Honor", "Dark Hearts", "Last Knights" (Morgan Freeman and Clive Owen), "Brave Miss World", "Admissions" and "The Ring Two" . He has been the recipient of the "BMI Award" for "The Ring Two" and won an "Emmy nomination" for the HBO Documentary " Cries from Syria". Soon after completing his conservatory studies in Switzerland and at USC in Los Angeles in 1989, Martin began playing cello with some of the worlds 's leading artists like Elton John, Sting, B.B King, Shaka Khan, T Bone Burnett, Beck, Elvis Costello, Chicago and others. Martin is a very prolific and unique composer and performer of his own individual Projects: "Superhuman" his latest album released in March 2016, will soon be performed "Live in Concert " and then followed by a tour. Superhuman combines EDM, Classical and Rock music and will have its premiere in Zurich Switzerland . It features Martin on E-cello, Rockband (including musicians from the Beach Boys, Phil Collins to Michael Jackson). The highly unique orchestra consists of 20 Cellists,4 percussionists and Light-show. Tillman now resides in Zurich but continues his work in Hollywood , performing on some of the biggest Film-scores to come in 2020 and 2021.("Mulan" by Disney to be released in 2020).
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